get-up-and-go

1. 1.

   enterprising or ambitious drive

   “Europeans often laugh at American energy”

   Synonymsenergypush

   Broaderdrive

   Narrowersecond wind

Questions about get-up-and-go

What does get-up-and-go mean?

get-up-and-go means "enterprising or ambitious drive".

How many syllables are in get-up-and-go?

get-up-and-go has 4 syllables: ge-t-u-p-and--go. The stress falls on "t-u".

What is another word for get-up-and-go?

Close synonyms include energy, push. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is get-up-and-go a common word?

get-up-and-go is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.